Just an update to this thread....I receive this helmet over a month ago, and I have no words to describe how beautiful this helmet is, and the pics posted gives no justice to it either. I'm still drooling over it...well, not literally OVER it...can't do that!
Here's also an update for something that happened while showing the helmet to members of the Italica Garrison in a little get-together we had last week: The rangefinder, I found out is kind of fragile and flexible, like about to break in half at any moment, and when you swivel the RF either up or down, the whole earcap assembly was doing so as well with the RF stalk, as a result of the glue that gave up, holding the inner earcap piece and the earcap outer cap. So I decided to do a mod, just like the MS3 version (guys, if you really wanted to do this, the time is NOW).
I tood the inner ear assembly, and drilled holes, just like the MS3 version, which is easier and a SURE method to hold the inner part to be in place. Here are the pics of my mods to the helmet (which is about to see real first action to a Star Wars event in Italy next week):
http://imageevent.com/darthvader1/ms2modification
Here's just a sample of what I'm doing to it so far,
The screws I used were 5/8" long screws with nuts, leaving just about 2/8" in the other side, so it won't hurt me when wearing the helmet... could take pics of the interior later on.
Hope this helps a couple of our members here for the future.
Robert